The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7227 p825
7 December 2002

Society summary

Move to end disclosure of members' addresses

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is seeking a change to the Society's Byelaws to end the disclosure of members' full addresses in the printed Annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists. The Society proposes that only the postal town element of the address should be published in future.

The move aims to allay concerns about personal safety that inhibit some pharmacists from submitting their home address as their registered address. The Society wants pharmacists to register their personal residential addresses because home addresses are more likely to be kept up to date and allow members to be contacted more readily and directly.

The proposed change will bring the Society in line with other regulatory bodies, which publish postal towns rather than the full addresses of their members.

Official Notice, p831